A message to Brian Williams and all Main Stream Media reporters

[liberal N proud]

I don't believe you, I have not believed anything any of you have said since you all lied to get us into war in Afghanistan.

Weather you were used are were part of the charade, you lost all credibility and have done nothing to restore it. You intentionally misled an entire nation and promoted the lies of a regime which took control under questionable means which of course you allowed to happen.

In the democratic republic, the media was supposed to be the guardians of the truth, the barrier between an administration or Congress that overstepped its boundaries. That is how the founding fathers intended it, that is the true purpose of the First Amendment, to protect the media.

You all failed at your duties, you failed the American People and you failed humanity.

How do you restore your credibility? Don't know if that is entirely possible. To begin, you can name those who were responsible for the lies that drove us to an needless, useless, endless war. If it stops with you, which I don't believe it does, then speak it, if it leads to dragging current and former leaders through the mud, then it must be done, they deserve it. You OWE Humanity and you owe history this.

[Triana]

1. The media did the work of the war criminals - aiding and abetting

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2008/01/23/5641/false-pretenses

[daleanime]

2. Major K&R

[Enthusiast]

3. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

The media also failed us in reporting the causes for the 2008 stock market crash. They even reported a false story used to explain away the real reasons and excuse Wall Street.

The media also failed us in reporting the truth of the 2,000 election and subsequent anti-democratic supreme court ruling.

The media also failed us in their examination of events leading up to the 911 event.

The media failed us and continues to fail us every single fucking day.

[freebrew]

4. Nailed it!

[Cryptoad]

5. Please do not,,,

demean the word "reporter"

[liberal N proud]

7. Not intending to demean a true reporter

All reporters are going to take a bad rap though which is another failure by those who have betrayed us and their profession.

I don't know of any other term except naming individuals and there are so many who are guilty of this crime against Democracy.

[Cryptoad]

10. Media News Celebrity ?

[GGJohn]

6. A huge K&R. eom.

[LittleGirl]

8. Sorry, I don't agree

and this is why...

Brian Douglas Williams is an American journalist, who is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed on December 2, 2004.

via wiki

[liberal N proud]

9. But he worked for NBC long before that...

lying his way to the top.

[valerief]

11. Ah, you mean when the Iraq war was going on and would continue for seven more years.

He had, as had the other water-bearers for the oligarchs, seven years to speak up. Yes, we know if he had, the air would have gone to "technical difficulties" and he'd have been fired or worse. And he was as much to blame for continuing the war as were the soldiers who signed up for it. Only it was different with Williams and the other "journalists." The soldiers were/are ignorant of how things work. A few "rah-rah" phrases pumps them up and they want to kill someone for "freedom and liberty." Williams knows better. He's not "rah-rah" ignorant. He knew what he was doing.

The world can't get all the soldiers to wise up, but journalists can go on strike and "strongly influence" scab journalists. That's how strikes work. But that'll never happen. For every oligarch, there are millions of whores.

[Cha]

12. Huge KICK.. mahalo lNp